Zoë played the part of widow Donatella Pirotta in the third episode of the BBC's Italian detective series Zen, which premiered on Sunday 16th January on BBC One and BBC One HD at 9pm.

Drama series centred around Rome detective Aurelio Zen, who finds it tough being the only honest cop in town. Plotting politicians, a stressed-out boss and vengeful gangsters don't make it easy.

Detective Zen works against the clock to recover the kidnapped Ruggerio Miletti, a wealthy industrialist with political ties. The involvement of the manipulative family and a beautiful grieving widow complicate matters. Meanwhile Tania's husband does everything he can to get rid of Zen.

The episode is entitled Ratking and is repeated on UK Channels BBC One HD at 22:30 on Friday 6th January 2012.

• The Zen Gallery

In April 2010, Zoë voiced the character of The Pilot for the Blake's 7 Audio Adventure ZEN: Escape Velocity.

The audio adventure is part of the BLAKE’S 7: THE EARLY YEARS series, published by the UK-based independent production company, B7 Productions and stars Zoë, Jason Merrells, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Alistair Lock as Zen.

On Saturday December 24th at 6.00pm BBC Radio 4 Extra is broadcasting the whole audio adventure as part of it's '7th Dimension' programme slot and then again at midnight for an encore presentation.

The programme will then be available on BBC iPlayer for seven days.

Survivors has been released on in a special French language (Region 2) DVD release on the Koba Films label.

Individual sets of series one and series two were released on 27 April 2011, and a two series box-set released on 19 October 2011.

All three releases offer a dubbed French (along the original English) soundtrack and French subtitles, and have the additional French titles of Les Survivants De L'Apocalypse (Survivors Of The Apocalypse).

The Koba Films release is the only example so far of a second language release for Survivors. The French editions are widely available through European DVD retailers (alongside the original English-language Region 1 2|Entertain release).

Zoë is - or rather Zoë's photograph - is appearing at The National Portrait Gallery as part of an exhibition displaying "The Actress Now".

Beginning 20th October, The National Portrait Gallery will be hosting two new exhibitions called The Actress Now, and The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons.

The Actress Now display will feature 39 portraits of both new and veteran actresses in the form of oil paintings, pencil drawings, ceramic sculptures, and photographs to demonstrate the diversity and breadth of contemporary talent.

The photograph of Zoë in the exhibition is the Sarah Dunn portrait taken in 2009, the subject of which was Shadows.

Actresses Helena Bonham Carter, Lily Cole, Sophie Okonedo, Anna Popplewell, Zoë, Emma Thompson, Zoe Wanamaker and Dame Harriet Walter are ambassadors of the display, and their reflections and comments on their careers will be displayed on captions throughout the free exhibit.

The Actress Now is free to enter and is displayed in rooms 41 and 41a until 8th January 2012.

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding is a comedy drama film starring Felicity Jones, Elizabeth McGovern, Mackenzie Crook and Zoë.

The film is currently in post-production, with a speculated release date of 2012. No other details are as yet available.

The tag-line for the film is: "On her wedding day a girl knows she is about to make a serious mistake."